Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it could be sustained by unmemorable ones, provided that the texture of the accumulated jottings avoided the sound of failed poetry.

Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it could be sustained by unmemorable ones, provided that the texture of the accumulated jottings avoided the sound of failed poetry.

Jack Aubrey is a tremendous tower of strength and you always want to read about him.

Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

I try to be specific. One thought at a time. Clear. Articulate. And above all, memorable, if you can be. You'd like to write phrases that people can't forget as soon as they read them.

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.